Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Since Tunisia's President Kais Saied plunged the country into political uncertainty in a power grab, an armoured vehicle has guarded the gates of the now suspended parliament.

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Tunisians protested on Jan. 20 to demand the release of hundreds of young demonstrators arrested in several nights of disturbances, venting their anger also against the government's handling of a deepening social crisis.

The Tunisian national dialogue quartet, a coalition of civil society organisations, has won the 2015 Nobel peace prize “for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011″.

Hundreds of armed police patrolled the streets of Tunisia's beach resorts on June 28 and the government said it will deploy hundreds more inside hotels after the Islamist militant attack in Sousse that killed 39 foreigners, mostly Britons. 

Montenegro is to introduce sanctions against former top officials of Tunisia who are accused of money laundering and misuse of office, joining an EU decision adopted earlier this year.

Twenty-two people were killed and about 17 wounded in the shooting at the Bardo national museum in Tunisia's capital on Wednesday, the Bulgarian ambassador to the North African country has said.

There are no indications of Bulgarian nationals having been killed or wounded in the attack, Ambassador Mihail Nikolovski told Nova TV station.

Tunisia Feb. 2 presented its new coalition government, dominated by the secular Nidaa Tounes party but also including its Islamist rivals, as it prepares to tackle security problems and a faltering economy.